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Plant pests and pathogens are among the biotic factors which contributed a yearly loss of about 20–40% in crop plants. The strategies available for the management of plant diseases predominately involve the use of toxic pesticides which are harmful to humans and the environment. Nanotechnology can provide advantages over conventional pesticides because of their ability to reduce toxicity, the improvement of shelf‐life, and the increase of solubility of poor water‐soluble pesticides, all of this could have positive impacts on the environment (Worrall et al. 2018). There are two directions through which nanoparticles can be used for plant disease managements either as nanoparticles alone or as nanocarriers for insecticides, bactericides, fungicides, or antivirals (Worrall et al. 2018).